The home furnishing industry is an industry that emphasizes service and experience. It is precisely because of this characteristic that companies that have been hoping to subvert the industry through the Internet have not achieved significant results. Traditional home furnishing manufacturers still concentrate their firepower to develop offline businesses. Since offline services and experiences cannot be provided online, this advantage should be maximized to maintain a good development trend under the impact of the Internet.

The service provided by the furniture manufacturer should meet the needs of the public.

Channel changes, declining traffic, homogenization of products, and foreign brands invading the domestic market, multiple threats require home furnishing companies to change their thinking, from a producer to a service provider, good service is equivalent to getting the key to open the minds of consumers. There are currently three main roles in providing furniture products: custom home furnishing companies, finished home furnishing companies, and main material supply chain companies.

Real estate market

Starting from the second half of 2018, the growth rate of custom home furnishings has slowed down. "Business is not good" is the common feeling of many custom home owners. The main reasons are as follows:

First, the decoration industry is closely related to the real estate market. The incremental market has peaked. The demand for decoration in the stock market is far less than that in the incremental market. Under the general environment, the custom home furnishing industry is bound to experience a trough with the real estate market.

Second, the high growth rate of custom home furnishing companies in the past is partly due to the "staking of the market" type of market sinking, through channel expansion, extending stores to second, third, and fourth-tier cities. Even if the single-store revenue does not grow, the expansion of this channel is enough to support the rapid growth of the company's revenue in a few years. When the market sinks to a bottleneck and the staking is over, the growth rate of customized homes will naturally slow down.

Third, dealers have always been the most mainstream sales channel in the custom home furnishing industry. With successive channel changes such as fine decoration, supply chain, e-commerce, and stores, the survival of dealers has been severely challenged. The main sales channels are facing difficulties, and the development of enterprises will also encounter bottlenecks.

Provide services

The furniture manufacturer looks for opportunities for their own development in such an environment.

Finally, the head clustering effect of customized companies began to appear. According to the "2018-2019 China Home Furnishing Industry Development Research Report" released by Yiou Think Tank, according to UBS's forecast, the scale of China's custom home furnishing market in 2018 will be 242.42 billion yuan.

For bedroom furniture manufacturer wants to improve their own business barriers, service is a very important part. The service of customized home furnishing has its particularity, and the degree of product differentiation is too high. Due to the lack of understanding of the product, it is difficult for decoration companies and supply chain platforms to replace customized home furnishing companies to provide services.

Custom home furnishing companies mainly provide services to designers, distributors, and installers.

Designers are the role that can best build brand power and consumer trust, and companies must attach great importance to them. A good customized home furnishing company should first obtain the recognition of consumers with its design works. The designer should comprehensively consider the number of people in each family, the ratio of men to women, whether there are elderly or children, etc., and combine the individual needs of consumers to make real customization. Home.

Lifestyle of each family

The actual situation is that many designers of custom home furnishings are more like salespersons. They adjust the original product design according to the actual size. They do not have a deep understanding of the lifestyle of each family, and the designer's sense of service is not strong.

The furniture manufacturer also needs to change their roles from sales to service. They are facing channel changes brought about by real estate companies, installers, e-commerce, etc. The status of dealers is already in jeopardy, but these roles are generally not available For the service capabilities of customized products, distributors should seize their own advantages and deepen their services.